It's Tuesday, and I'm Andy, taking a hot lap of the auto world with Autoweek TV. Let's get going:

The BMW stand at the Paris motor show will host the debut of a new 3-series concept that will become a production car.

The car is the 3-series GT. It doesn't take much imagination to envision this as a smaller sibling to the 5-series GT.

Europeans will get the car by next summer. We don't know--yet--whether BMW will bring it to our roads.

The 3-series GT gets a stretched wheelbase, which translates into more legroom for rear passengers.

The insurance industry has unveiled a new crash test that rams the front corner of a car into a barrier at 40 mph. And the first batch of 11 luxury cars subjected to it didn't fare so well--only three were rated as good or acceptable.

What makes the new crash test so challenging? By involving only 25 percent of the front area of a car in a collision, there's much less structure available to absorb impact forces.

Currently, no government in the world mandates use of the 25 percent offset crash test. The most severe test today is a 40 percent offset, which most carmakers have figured out how to pass.

But the insurance institute says a quarter of the 10,000 deaths a year from frontal crashes come from hits to a front corner of the car.

Fisker Automotive is looking into a Karma plug-in hybrid sedan that caught fire last weekend. This is the second Karma to catch fire in the last three months.

In a statement, Fisker said its investigators don't believe the latest fire was caused by the Karma's lithium-ion battery. Investigators are focusing on the car's left-front tire.

The Karma's battery pack aroused suspicion after a battery failed while the car was being tested by Consumer Reports magazine in March. Then, in May, a Karma was destroyed in a garage fire in Sugar Land, Texas. The cause of the fire has not been determined.

That's the news for now.

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